Note taking—whether in classrooms or boardrooms—is a highly personalized style of recording…
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The poll shook out strongly in favor of handwritten notes with 38% of you indicating that you took all your notes by hand, 40% of you took a combination of handwritten and typed notes, and only 21% of you took exclusively typed notes.

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What kind of notes you took had a strong impact on what your note-taking preference was:

I take classes that require drawing lots of diagrams. Short of buying a tablet, there's no way I'm drawing anything on the computer fast nor accurately enough. - ian.nai

As a math major with a minor in psychology I find that it's easier to handwrite my notes in my math classes and typing my notes in my psych classes... I guess it just depends on the subject matter. - KRiSone87

Many of you voted in favor of using a hybrid of note taking, some hand writing notes and then typing them and others using typed and handwritten notes side by side:

I take down handwritten notes during class and then digitize everything later at my leisure (with LaTeX). This ensures I go over all my course material twice while getting the best of both worlds - simongmzlj

I bring my netbook with OneNote to class. It allows me to take everything down as well as add pictures from Google image search or a professor's posted lecture notes. If there is a diagram that I can't draw quickly on OneNote software I will draw on paper. When I am reading I take notes on paper that I later organize in OneNote.

OneNote is my all-purpose note taking device because it allows searching, customized organization through notebooks, tabs and pages, and every block of text and object is movable to any position on the page. - JFL

What's interesting to note is that very few people were opposed to using a computer to take notes on any sort of principle, but simply hadn't found a computer-based setup that worked the way they needed it to. Presumably when tablets with super accurate hand-writing recognition become commonplace a significant majority of the paper and pen note takers will migrate to enjoy the benefits of computer indexing and organization.

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